CQ WW 160 m CONTEST CW 2017

Another nice 160m CW, but minimum of Sun activity is comming. „Unfortunately“, I have good TX, but bad RX. No RX antenna built for this winter.

Really hard conditions this year. So-so 11 K/VE multipliers. Both nights were very difficult to make some NA stations, five Caribbeans was easier. Sunday evening I succesfully called JA + two another called me after short CQ inside JA window. But I didn’t obtain traditional 6 – 10 end-of-contest (Sunday evening) multipliers. Only JA was made with S/P, another 2 new mults called me on my CQ frequency. A lot of time was wasted my rotating knob over the band (with thousands callsings checks of tons of worked stations, hi).

Quite a lot of gentlemen. I had to defence my pileup frequency only few times, maximum battle took 12 minutes, hi.

Thanks to everybody, who make this hard contest so interesting.

Final score:   422 484
Category:      SO HP
Rank:          WW #35   EU #20   OM #1

Call: OM7RU
Operator(s): OM7RU
Station: OM7RU

Class: Single Op HP
QTH: Dolna Micina
Operating Time (hrs): 29:57
Location : Northern Europe

Summary:

  QSOs     State/Prov   Countries   Total Score
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  1087        11           65          433,504
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Used equipments:
Yaesu FT-1000MP MarkV Field
ACOM 2000A
MicroHAM microKeyer, MicroHAM StationMaster
WinTest

Antennas:
Vertical (35m tower + 2 elevated radials)

73!
Riki, OM7RU